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THE CLARION-LEDGER. I I I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2004 CLARIONLEDGER.COM MISSISSIPPI DEATHS Virginia Ward Alexander Vicksburg Virginia Roberta Ward Alexander, 91, died Friday, September 3, 2004, at Lakeland Nursing Home and Rehab. Center. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Mrs.

Alexander's residence, 1585 Warrenton Road, Vicksburg. Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Crawford Street United Methodist Church with burial in Green Acres Cemetery, Bro. Geoffrey Joyner will officiate. Frank J.

Fisher Funeral Home of Vicksburg is handling arrangements. Mrs. Alexander was a native of Sylvarena and had been a resident of Vicksburg since 1940. She was the daughter of the late Dr. William Robert and Frances V.

Douglas Ward. Mrs. Alexander attended Smith County Schools. Mississippi State College for Women, and Mississippi State University, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees. She taught school at Artesia, later in Vicksburg at Carr Junior High 1 School, Cooper High School, Vicksburg High School, and Hind Community College; she had taught for over 20 years.

While at Cooper High School, she and her science students constructed a nature trail close to the school. In her later years she became a Civil War historian and led numerous groups through the Vicksburg National Military Park. She was a faithful member of Crawford Street United Methodist Church. Her accomplishments included restoration of the Vick Family grave site. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Melville Alexander, Sr.

and by two brothers and five sisters. Survivors include two sons, William Melville Alexander, Jr. of Florence, and Joel Douglas Alexander of Dallas, Texas; two daughters, Gail A. Buzhardt of Bolton and Jane A. Kelly of Raymond; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be William Alexander, Douglas Alexander, Jay Buzhardt, Wayne Stover, Bill Majure and Marty Cox. Honorary Pallbearers will be John Turner, Jim Dukes, Mark Hardy and James Hancock. Memorials may be made to Crawford Street United Methodist Church, 900 Crawford Vicksburg, MS 39180, or to Nature Conservancy, 4245 North Fairfax Arlington, VA 22203. Andrew J. Anderson Meridian Andrew J.

Anderson, 63, owner of Anderson Tool Die, died Sunday, September 5, 2004, at his home. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Barham Funeral Home in Meridian and 10-11 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Services are 11 a.m.

Tuesday at Macedonia Baptist Church in the Suqualena Community with burial in the church cemetery. Diane Bradshaw Brandon Diane Bradshaw, 55, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at her home. Visitation is 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral service today at Greenfield United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.

Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home of Pearl is handling arrangements. Mrs. Bradshaw was a lifelong resident of Rankin County. She loved to cook for her friends and family. She loved working with her flowers and plants, but most of all she loved her grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, Talmadge "Jr" Bradshaw; son, Ricky and wife, Stephanie Bradshaw of Carthage; daughters, Tammy and husband, Darryl Davidson, and Lynn and husband, Alex Ray, all of Brandon; sisters, Claudia Sears, Dorothy Arp and Linda Robb, all of Brandon; and eight grandchildren. Amie Lynn Ewing Oxford Amie Lynn Ewing, 23, a pharmacy dent at the University of Mississippi, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Baptist Memorial Miss. in Oxford. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at Waller Funeral Home in Oxford.

Services are 2 p.m. Church with Tuesday burial at in North Clear Oxford Creek Baptist tery. Elder Max Ewing and Elder Larry Wise will officiate. Amie was a member of Antioch tive Baptist Church. She was a graduate student of the University of Mississippi Chancellor Funeral Home www.chancellorfuneralhome.com MR.

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editions. Obituary photos also publication in all editions. For 961-7057. For online searchable obituaries days, visit clarionledger.com's with a BA in Science and Pharmaceutical Sciences and was a member of the Women's Volleyball Team and the Club. Survivors include her parents, Donnie and Rita Ewing of Oxford; sister, Sandi Ewing of Oxford; brother, Brad Ewing of Oxford; grandparents, Max and Pebble Ewing, and Bonnie Lee and Flora James, all of Oxford.

Memorials may be made to Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, 252 Country Road 303, Oxford, MS 38665. Pharye G. Freeman Hendersonville, TN Pharye Guinn Freeman, 91, a retired school teacher for 40 years, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at National Healthcare in Hendersonville, Tenn. Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery in Columbus.

Memorial Funeral Home of Columbus is handling arrangements. Robert Fred Gafford Belzoni Robert Fred "Bobby" Gafford, 48, an employee of Bunge Corp. -Towboat Industry, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at his sister's home in Brandon. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today at Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville.

Services are 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with burial in Belzoni City Cemetery in Belzoni. Aaron Nathaniel Holleyman Carthage Staff Sergeant Aaron Nathaniel Holleyman, 26, a medic with the U.S. Army 5th Special Forces, died Monday, August 30, 2004, when his convoy came under attack in Western Iraq. Visitation is 5-8 p.m.

today at Wilcox Funeral Home in Carthage. Services are 10 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Baptist Church in Carthage and burial, with full military honors, will be Monticello Baptist Church Cemetery in Monticello. Rev. Michael Smith will officiate.

Holleyman was born in Rankin County. He was baptized while attending First Baptist Church of Clinton. He attended Clinton Public Schools and graduated from Glasgow High School in Glasgow, Montana. He entered the U.S. Army on June 12, 1996, at the Jackson, Mississippi Induction Center, and received his basic training, AIT, and jump school at Fort Benning, Ga.

Holleyman was then assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Battalion, 505 in November 1996. In December 2000, he was assigned to JFK SWTC, and in August 2003, he was assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Battalion, Charlie Company, Operational Dispatch Alpha 531, 180 Medical Specialist. Survivors include his son, Zachary Ross Holleyman of Fayetteville, N.C.; daughters, Erin Michelle Holleyman and Shelby Lynn Holleyman, both of Fayetteville, N.C.; step-son, Thorn Ivy of Fayetteville, N.C.; step-daughter, Cheyenne Phillips of Fayetteville, N.C.; parents, Rev. Ross and Glenda Holleyman of brother, Daniel Holleyman of Carthage; sister, Kelly Schmidt of Carthage; grandparents, George and Sylvia Carpenter of Monticello and Max W. and Dunreath R.

Holleyman of Lakeland, Fla. Floyd Hunter Carthage Floyd worker, Primi-2004, at 11:15 a.m. in Carthage. Pearl Hill Hunter, 85, a retired railroad died Saturday, September 4, his home. Visitation is today at Wilcox Funeral Home Services 12 noon today at Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery.

Bennie Kilgore Philadelphia Bennie Kilgore, 72, a retired with MDOT, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at McClain-Hays Funeral Home in Philadelphia. Services are 2 p.m. Troubled? Blue? Talk it out.

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Inc. Brandon PEGGY DERRICK Arrg. Inc. Forest Mrs. Meier was preceded in death by her husband, Andrew Meier; her parents, Mr.

Mrs. David McClain; 16 brothers and one sister. She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews and will be remembered for her outstanding life. Myrtice Moore Madison Myrtice Moore, 76, a retired court reporter for Hinds County, died Sunday, September 5, 2004, at her home. Visitation is 4-6 p.m.

today and 1 p.m. Tuesday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland. Services are 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Mrs.

Moore was born in Calhoun City and reared in Pittsboro. She loved all outdoor sports and activities, especially basketball and bowling. She also loved to fish. She was a member of Twin Lakes Baptist Church and the Association of Court Reporters. She was a very kind and caring person who will be greatly missed.

Survivors include her husband, James David Moore of Lake Lorman; children, Dr. Mike Jones of Vicksburg, Susan York of Atlanta, Connie Cook of Clinton, Bonnie Hayfers of Pelahatchie, Jimmy Moore of Franklin, Brenda Moore of Murfreesboro, and Ken Moore of Gulfport; ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; sisters, Maxine Weisenbaker of Houston, Texas, Sue Martin and Ruth Easley, both of Pittsboro; brothers, Holly Easley of Memphis, Jim Easley of Akron, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Easley of Bruce. Memorials may be made to Twin Lakes Baptist Church, 673 Lake Cavalier Madison, MS 39110. Noel Thomas Nichols Coffeeville Noel Thomas Nichols, 56, a welder, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Grenada Lakes Medical Center in Grenada. Services are 10 a.m.

today at Coffeeville United Methodist Church with burial in Coffeeville Cemetery. Garner-Harper Funeral Home of Coffeeville is handling arrangements. Raymond Rivers Holly Bluff Raymond Rivers, 86, a retired farmer, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at River Oaks Hospital in Flowood. Graveside services are 2 p.m. today in Belzoni City Cemetery.

Mortimer-Roberson Funeral Home of Yazoo City is handling arrangements. Donald Stovall Sr. Florence Donald Stovall, 62, died Friday, September 3, 2004, at his family home. Services are 2 p.m. today at Tutor Funeral Home in Magee with burial in Mendenhall City Cemetery in Mendenhall.

Diane L. Thomas Ridgeland Diane Lowery Thomas, 57, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at her home. Visitation is 10 a.m. until the 2 p.m. funeral service today at Ott Lee Funeral Home in Brandon with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park in Jackson.

Diane was a longtime resident of the Jackson area. She was a Baptist. Survivors include her husband, Kevin Thomas of Ridgeland; daughters, Cindy Richard and Sherri Manus; son, James Eubanks; her mother, Elma Ray Lowery; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; sister, Lanette Lockhart; and brother, Joe Lowery. James Franklin Trotter Greenville James Franklin Trotter, 84, a retired mechanic, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville. Services are 2 p.m.

today at Smith Funeral Home in Greenville with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. George Steven Varnado Pass Christian George Steven Varnado, 54, died Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation is 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m.

funeral service Tuesday at Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Pass Christian with burial in St. Paul Cemetery. Buford Walley Bay Springs Buford Walley, 84, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Jasper General 5-8 p.m. today at Colonial Chapel Nursing Home in Bay Springs. Visitationis Home in Bay Springs.

Services are 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with burial in Old Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Seelig Bartel Wise Jackson Seelig Bartel (Bushie) Wise, 91, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation is 12 noon Tuesday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home in Jackson, followed by a memorial service in the funeral home chapel at 2 p.m.

Mr. Wise, formerly of Jonestown, had a long and distinguished career in public service. He attained the rank of Captain in Breeland FUNERAL HOME CANTON 859-3661 922-1071 LOCALLY OWNED MR. JOHN WILLIAM "JOHN BILL" DIVINE 11 a.m. Tuesday-Chapel Visit: 5-8 p.m.

Monday the U.S. Army and graduated from the Chinese Language School at Berkley. He earned a BS degree in Agriculture from Mississippi State and was a cotton farmer in Coahoma County. He served as a special agent with the F.B.I. He was the first post-Reconstruction Republican Senator, representing Coahoma, Tunica and Quitman Counties.

Mr. Wise also served on the Board of Directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield, was a co-founder of the Mississippi Hospital Association of Governing Boards, and served as president of the Northwest Mississippi Medical Center Board of Directors. He served as the State Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmer's Home Administration and also the Agricultural Stabilization and Soil Conservation Service. Mr.

Wise was a member of First Baptist Church of Jackson. He was married to the late Miriam Swann Wise and the late Melba Taylor Smith Wise. Survivors include his son, Daniel Reese Wise, formerly of Hattiesburg, now of San Jose, Costa Rica; three grandchildren, Daniel Reese Wise, Jr. of Poplarville, Juliana Wise Kyzar of Murfreesboro, and Wilson Bartel Wise of Pearl; one great-granddaughter, Savannah Danielle Wise; and seven nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society of the Mississippi Baptist Children's Home.

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for questions call (601) 961-7159 or and obituaries from recent obituary section. Tuesday at the funeral home with burial in Eastlawn Cemetery. Oscar Clinton King Carthage Oscar Clinton King, 64, a Tyson hatchery worker, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at his home. Visitation is 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

today at Wilcox Funeral Home in Carthage. Services are 2 p.m. today at Carthage First Apostolic Church with burial in Old Mars Hill Cemetery in Winston County. James E. 'Jimmy' Lane Clinton James E.

"Jimmy" Lane, 90, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at his home. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today and after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home. Graveside services are 3 p.m.

Tuesday in Lakewood Memorial Park. Mrs. James E. "Jimmy" Lane was a native of Harrisburg, Arkansas, and had been a longtime resident of Jackson, before moving to Clinton last year. He the owner of Lane's Hardware, which was located in Jackson, for many years.

He was an avid outdoorsman who loved to hunt and fish; he also enjoyed working in his garden. Mr. Lane is survived by his wife, Yvonne Lane of Clinton; son, James Allen Lane and wife, Kim of Columbus, daughters, Charlotte L. Bickerstaff and husband, David of Rancho Mirage, and Geraldine Joyner of Terry; brother, Wilson Lane of Columbus, sister, Ruby Alexander of Clinton; 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association Mississippi Chapter, 1900 Dunbarton Drive, Jackson, MS 39216.

Evelyn B. McWilliams Magee Evelyn B. McWilliams, 85, died Sunday, September 5, 2004, at Magee General Hospital in Magee. Visitation is 8 a.m. until the 2 p.m.

funeral service today at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Magee with burial in Coat Baptist Church Cemetery. Evelyn McWilliams was born May 7, 1919, the daughter of Willie Brewer and Maude Walker Brewer Johnson. She was a retired factory worker and a member of Coat Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, D.C. McWilliams; sons, Billy and Dwight McWilliams; and great-grandson, Joshua Bailey McWilliams.

Survivors include her sons, Mickey McWilliams and Daniel and wife, Johnnie McWilliams, all of Magee; daughter, Brenda and husband, Adrian Stringer of Magee; 11 grandchildren and 24 greatgrandchildren. Christine Meier Indianola Christine McClain Meier, 92, formerly of Shaw, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at South Sunflower County Hospital in Indianola. Visitation is 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service today at Card Funeral Home in Indianola with burial in Shaw Cemetery in Shaw.

She graduated from Moorhead Junior College, taught school at the Hale Community where she also coached the basketball team. She married her beloved husband, Andy, and while he was in the Navy, she worked at Oak Ridge, in the production of the atom bomb, which was top secret in World War II. After the war, she and Andy made their home in Shaw. She taught the GA's (Girls Auxiliary) at the First Baptist Church in Shaw. She was also a rural mail carrier for a number of years.

She was employed by Rubensteins Store in Shaw. In the fall, she worked at the gin. She led a full active life until her later years. She will be missed by all of her relatives and friends. The family is devoted to her niece, Carolyn Hodge, nephew, Kenny McClain and his wife, Wanda, for taking care of Christine in her last few months while she was a patient at Indianola Health and Rehabilitation Center.

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Visitation is 12 noon until the 2 p.m. funeral service Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church in Greenville with burial in Lakeview Gardens Cemetery. Mortimer Funeral Home of Greenville is handling arrangements. Virginia O. Yeates Fulton Virginia Osborne Yeates, 83, died Saturday, September 4, 2004, at Daniel Nursing Home in Fulton.

Graveside services are 10 a.m. Tuesday in Adaton United Methodist Church Cemetery west of Starkville. Visitation will follow the service. Lee Memorial Funeral Home of Verona is handling arrangements. Hargon: Canton woman next in line for property, will shows From 1B the heirs," Powell said, so the property would become his.

But the property still would not have gone to Earnest Lee Hargon, according to the will. Doris Ann Lott of Canton, who is included in Charles Hargon's will, would become the heir. "We don't know what was in his mind," Powell said. The farm acreage is valued at $175,000 and the farmhouse at $45,000, but the property was mortgaged for nearly $177,000 to Farmers Home Administration, records show. On March 6, 1997, Charles Hargon signed over a deed of trust to FHA for three loans all made the same day.

The loans were to be paid off by 2012. Family acquaintances have said Charles Hargon let his son know he had until Christmas to make amends, but Earnest Lee Hargon didn't see his father. Meanwhile, Evans said Friday he sent Yazoo Circuit Judge Jannie Lewis his three suggestions for trial sites. Several days ago, Lewis granted Evans' request to move the trial from Yazoo County. Evans' list has two northern places and one southern location.

Powell suggested three northern locations. Neither Evans nor Powell would disclose their suggestions. Evans said he wants the trial held somewhere with demographics similar to those of Yazoo County. The county's population, which is majority black, is about 28,270, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

"I think they're ridiculous," Evans said of Powell's suggestions. He wouldn't reveal the locations. "They are like being on a different planet compared to Yazoo County," Evans said. Love war: Unit has begun $16M project for clean water From 1B Their unit already has begun an ambitious $16 million project part of 114 projects throughout the country to get 5 million Iraqis clean drinking water, something the people haven't had in a long time, Tom Conerly said. "The biggest need here for the Iraqis is infrastructure, like power, water and sewers," he said.

"We're doing that for them. We're making a difference." He and his wife have been married since 1997 and were deployed twice together before leaving for Iraq in January. They are scheduled to return home about the first of the year. They left just 13 days after buying a home in Madison. experience," Tammy Conerly said.

But out of it all, Tom Conerly said, there is hope and a feeling died that the reconstruction of the G.V. Both have witnessed terrifying things bombs and mortars going off near where they work, Iraqis with not enough to eat or drink. "It is sometimes a frightening "The biggest need here for the Iraqis is the infrastructure, like power, water and sewers. We're doing that for them. We're making a difference." Maj.

Tom Conerly country is making Iraq and the world a better place. When they come back, they will return to their civilian jobs. Tom Conerly works at Backflow Solutions, a company he started in Jackson. Tammy Conerly is a guidance counselor at Olde Towne Middle School in Ridgeland. But for now, they will continue to help Iraqis find work.

"The locals are working to make this place better, too," Tammy Conerly said. "That's what we a all want." Gulf's 'dead zone' cited in Texas shark attacks The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Scientists say the dead zone off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico may be pushing sharks closer to shore in search of prey. The possibility that sharks are avoiding the low-oxygen area known as the dead zone and moving closer to shore coincides this summer with three shark attacks along the Texas coast. "They're going to be avoiding the dead zone," said Terry Stelly, an ecosystem biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. For more than a decade, this area of oxygen-poor water has averaged about 5,700 square miles every summer, which is about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

The dead zone forms when massive algae blooms are created by the nutrient-rich spring discharges of the Mississippi River, which empties about 41 percent of the continental United States and two Canadian provinces. Bacteria feed on the algae, devour the oxygen in the water and cause hypoxia, a lack of dissolved oxygen. Anything that can't stomach the drop in oxygen fish can't, but jellyfish and shrimp can flee dead zones. The result? A smorgasbord for predators waiting at the edge of dead zones, according to some researchers. With no study looking at the relationship between the dead zone and sharks, there's no telling if this summer's shark attacks were brought on by the dead zone, said Nancy Rabalais, a leading dead-zone researcher with the Universities Marine Consortium.

"We know hypoxia will concentrate fish, including sharks, but other than that we do not know the correlation between this and shark bites," Rabalais said. Rabalais said that during her surveys of the dead zone she has not observed sharks moving toward the shore. She noted that she has seen stingrays do that. The three shark attacks this summer in Texas took place when youngsters waded or swam in the Gulf and were near or suddenly Su rounded by a school of fish. All three attacks took place near Galveston, which is west of the edge of the dead zone that extends west from the mouth of the Mississippi River..